[Originally posted on Facebook, September 6, 2010] Robert Reich’s Labor Day blog referred to the following fact: ”In the late 1970s, the richest 1 percent of American families took in about 9 percent of the nation’s total income; by 2007, the top 1 percent took in 23.5 percent of total income.” He used this data point […]
Largest restaurant job losses since the Great Recession
(First posted at Sound Politics) Mark Perry, a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus, has been looking at Seattle’s employment numbers and noticed that following the April increase in the minimum wage to $11, we experienced the largest one month drop in restaurant jobs since the Great Recession. As […]
Thalidomide, the Precautionary Principle and Global Warming
Dr. Frances Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who was credited with largely averting the tragedy wrought by thalidomide in other parts of the world, passed away on Friday at the age of 101. As the Washington Post reported, she held up its approval and helped gather evidence of the […]
Why these videos are “disturbing”
Hillary Clinton deserves credit for her reaction to the Planned Parenthood videos. “I have seen pictures from them and obviously find them disturbing.” So much so that she supports a national investigation. Other people who’ve watched them tell me they’ve felt physically ill. It’s no wonder the Washington Post labeled the first one as containing graphic […]
Adapting to “Seattle on the Mediterranean”
With Seattle’s hot streak of weather in June, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to use it to make the case for “doing something” about climate change. Timothy Egan did just that in the July 3 New York Times, in which he pleads: “Before giving in to a future in which […]
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